Pieces here and there

The highlight of today is settling into the cold seat of a plates-and-cups-clanging Starbucks, sipping Green Tea Frappuccino, whipped cream almost touching the transparent cap cover but missing by a little. Sprawled on the table is Who Are You Today. Aroma of coffee beans, the smell of the cool air-condition air and sunlight falling on faces.

It has become a subconscious habit to link every sight to a theory or concept I’ve learnt. Spotting a pair of Adidas on a kid and immediately relating that to the theory of the Sacred Child. Beatrice Richmond sat beside me and Daniel Ong said, “Kids are expensive. They are a million dollars each.”

Looking at the green-aproned people behind the counter and thinking how race and class are conflated in Singapore and how class is reproduced one generation after the other.

There is an American who orders a drink and starts a loud conversation with one of the Starbucks boys. He says the Singapore dollar is getting stronger and why aren’t imports comparatively cheaper. He is an Economics graduate, he says, it is all very simple really but we are all getting cheated- the rest of which I couldn’t catch. Then his voices rises again, “I don’t know all the details of the Myanmar thing but Singapore has done many bad things and you should know that."

I think one could do a thesis paper just sitting in Starbucks.